Elective is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELECTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an optional course of study
• an optional course of study.
• In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
• a course that the student can select from among alternatives
• optional course or hospital placement undertaken by a medical student
ADJECTIVE:
• concerning the power of choice
• related to or working by means of election
• (of a person or office) appointed or filled by election
• (of a body or position) possessing or giving the power to elect
• (of surgical or medical treatment) chosen by the patient rather than urgently necessary
• (of a course of study) chosen by the student rather than compulsory
• chosen by election
• Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
• Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
• Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
• subject to popular election
• not compulsory

Words related to ELECTIVE

electively18 electiveness17 electives14 electivities17 electivity18

Words that contain ELECTIVE

electives14 selective14 electively18 nonelective16 selectively19 unselective16 electiveness17 nonselective17 nonelectives17 selectiveness18 unselectively21 electivenesses19 selectivenesses20

How to use ELECTIVE in a sentence

• The foundation of the original government of Rome was laid by Romulus, and the work completed by two of his elective successors, Numa and Tullius Hostilius.
• The object of the elective franchise is to give representation.
• I perfectly coincide with you, as to the propriety of the negro speedily becoming possessed of the elective franchise.
• But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
• The President and Vice-President are chosen by an elective body from all the States, the said body being selected by popular vote in each State.
• This sovereignty of individual States renders the elective franchise different in different States.
• Every citizen exercising the elective franchise is also eligible to serve in the militia.
• And the Trustees do this one thing, a rule of the church permitting a man to hold but one elective office.
• This kingdom was an elective monarchy, and usually upon the death of a king the fiercest strife ensued as to who should be his successor.
• He therefore exhausted all the arts of threats and bribes to induce the diet to pass a decree that the crown was no longer elective but hereditary.
• Very possibly the opportunity will also be taken to make the Legislative Council elective, but probably on a much less liberal basis than in the other colonies.
• But in carrying out the scheme, publishers and editors contrived to keep in mind that books, like men and women, have their elective affinities.
• This office by ancient custom, established by Charlemagne, was elective, and theoretically was open to any prince in Europe.
• It is such and so great an evil, that, though there are few nations whose monarchs were not originally elective, very few are now elected.
• In a city where all great offices were elective, the evil effects of the introduction of riches were soon displayed.
• It was called the Cookery Course and was elective, not required.
• All this must be brought about by the people, using their elective rights with prudence and self-possession, and not suffering themselves to be duped by treacherous emissaries.
• The surprising feature of elective assemblies is that here and there Messrs.
• These two beautiful women, as soon as they met, felt, by all the laws of elective affinity, that they belonged to each other.
• As the old form of government had been hereditary, the new form was to be elective and representative.
• Elective power extended to all gives us government by the masses, the only irresponsible form of government, under which tyranny is unlimited, for it calls itself law.
• As the crown was elective, a competition arose for the succession.
• Peel, must leave the Catholic Association and the elective franchise in Ireland just as they were.
• Since the house would not make the legislative council elective, he proposed to abolish it altogether.
• In 1851 I was elected Governor and the Legislature, under the lead of Caleb Cushing, passed a bill by which the overseers of the College were made elective by the Legislature.
• They tell me that things have changed at the universities since my day and that the elective system is no longer in favor.
• In substance, it makes the tenure of office of an elective official dependent on the continuous good-will of the voters, or of a certain proportion of the voters.
• The Regent also informs those who petition for excuses, and for elective studies, of the decision of the Faculty in regard to their petitions.
• The government of the Aztecs, or Mexicans, was an elective monarchy, the sovereign being, however, always chosen from the same family.
• But in those of a popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
• In that Constitution, elective, temporary, local judges, such as you have contrived, exercising their dependent functions in a narrow society, must be the worst of all tribunals.
• In limited monarchies where one branch of the legislature is elective, the other is an aristocratic body, composed of men of wealth and dignity, as the British house of lords.

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